putting prssure on innocent citizens, depriving people and wild-life of basic human needs (as electricity, water and flour), ‘Muslim’ Brotherhood think they can get their way of ruling Libya and many other countries in the world under an Islamic Caliphate:

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TRIPOLI:

CORNER:

Brega OIL REFINERY at the CORNER, (TRIPOLI on the coast): Fuel shortage crisis began gradually breakthrough

said Chairman of the Board of Directors of Brega Oil Marketing Faraj Alkmici Tuesday to atmosphere Forums:

The shortage of fuel filling stations in Tripoli began after breakthrough gradually provide security protection for

the handlers to the stations, explaining that there are some stations without security protection.

Zintan brigade QaaQa”, on FB,posts:
Mahdtdreb National Security Zintan.
..
In the name of Allah – peace be upon you my brothers valued – will be held on Wednesday the graduation

and thank each stop me from graduating batch best picture.

“Zintan brigade QaaQa”, on FB:
Today is Wednesday:
The graduation of the fourth batch of police recruits training center al-Zintan.
And thanks to the military council and municipal ZintanSecret deminingBattalion Abu Bakr Siddiq
All officers and non-commissioned officers and soldiers
Thus, adoption of an Army of Police.

Libya: Forces loyal to a former Libyan general suspended the parliament in Tripoli and continued their offensive against Benghazi. Paramilitary fighters under the command of retired General Khalifa Haftar fired on the parliament building, which they entered and where they detained at last 10 lawmakers. Two people were killed in the attack and 66 were injured, according to Libyan health officials. One of Hftar’s colonels, Mukhtar Farnana from Zintan, read the following proclamation on national TV. (NightWatch added the bold face and italics.) “We announce to you, we – the sons of Libya to which we belong only and to no other, from the members of our army and its revolutionaries – the following:

– First, freezing the work of the General National Congress and stopping it from exercising any acts or behaviours connected with the sovereignty of the state, its legislations and its administrations;

– Second, entrusting the 60-man commission for the drafting of the constitution with carrying out the duties and legislative powers in the narrowest possible scope, as well as assuming the supervisory powers over the performance of the interim emergency government and overseeing, in conjunction with the higher elections commission, the execution of the parliamentary and presidential election commitments on their scheduled dates;

– Third, entrusting the Interim Government with continuing to perform the necessary duties for the general administration in its capacity as an emergency government; entrusting it with supervising the national army, the army and the security bodies and institutions and strike with an iron fist all the forces of extremism, terrorism and criminality; and guaranteeing stability without the slightest threat and without interference in the personal liberties, freedom of expression, the media, and networking activities. The international community understands and realizes the facts of the new situation in the state of Libya.

– Fourth, *we announce to the world that the Libyan people will never accept their country becoming either a cradle or a host for terrorism*, and that, having regained power from the hands which forfeited the trust, they will work so that Libya will, God willing, become a model for peace, stability and liberties….” “In conclusion, we announce that the military action which took place today in Tripoli City was not aimed at staging a coup against the people’s legitimacy, the holder of sovereignty and the source of legitimacy. It was not aimed at seizing power and excluding any political side peaceful towards the political process, but it is an absolute alignment with the people’s choices and the requirements of democracy, freedom, and man’s dignity.”

The Libyan government called the action a “coup”, but Hftar’s spokesman, Colonel Mohammed el-Hasy, has denied it. Algeria announced it has closed its border with Libya.

The size of his “Cyrenaican National Army” is not clear, but the paramilitary forces from Zintan, a town of the Western Nafusa Green Mountains, They are hostile to the Salafi, and are the largest and most powerful militias in Tripoli. Thus far, three Zintan “brigades” have been identified as part of the Libyan National Army. Zintan is in northwestern Libya, just southwest of Tripoli. Benghazi. Hftar sent a contingent of his forces, supported by aircraft, to Benghazi on Friday to rid the city of Islamists. News services reported 70 killed in clashes between Hftar’s militias and Ansar al Sharia, which was involved in the terrorist attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi. It is too soon to judge whether Hftar’s action will succeed. He appears to have control of at least one Libyan air force base and is using its aircraft in a joint campaign against Benghazi.
If Hftar succeeds, he will roll back the so-called Arab Spring in Libya..

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“The Zintan Rebels Strike Back”, by

A group of five officers identifying themselves as the “Leaders of the Cyrenaican Army” have announced the suspension the General National Congress (GNC) and that the current government is to remain in office. In a four-point plan laid out by Colonel Mokhtar Fernana Andar Green, a Zintani former head of military intelligence, the “Leaders of the Cyrenaican Army” this evening announced that the Constitutional Assembly would take over the work of the GNC and that Abdullah Al-Thinni’s current government would no longer oversee the formation of the military and security forces.

The statement essentially blocked the premiership of Ahmed Meitik who was elected by the GNC at the beginning

of this month. Congress was supposed to vote and accept Meitik’s new government today before the attacks on the

GNC building began.

(picture: THE REAL MEITIK)

It is not clear if the five were linked to the assault on Congress, undertaken by the Qaaqaa and Sawaiq brigades, loyal to Colonel Khalifa Hfter, whose forces also call themselves the “Cyrenaican National Army “. The two brigades have stated that they are not under Hfter’s orders. Fernana’s statement concluded that the people of Libya “would never accept to be controlled by a group or organisation which initiates terror and chaos”.

Then appeared the protestors, who appear to be the Zintan style “anti-Brotherhood types” making their actions all the more disruptive and pointless.

The number of protestors swelled to nearly 500 late this evening, all condemning the wave of assassinations in Benghazi, Derna and Sirte and denouncing the GNC and government’s inaction over the country’s ongoing security crisis…..
Another young protester said he was there in solidarity with Benghazi which has seen waves of protests this week against the deteriorating security in the city.He said that Congress was completely controlled by the ‘Muslim’ Brotherhood and was heavily influenced by foreign agendas.

Following the 14 February statement by Maj. General Khalifa Hftar calling for the GNC and cabinet to dissolve and sounding suspiciously like the start to a military coup attempt, the Qaaqaa Brigade and Sawaiq Brigade of Zintan origin issued an ultimatum to the GNC on 18 February to disband within five hours of the statement – or else GNC members would be arrested. The Libya Herald reports, however, that Qaaqaa Brigade members were not seen in the city that night, militia forces did not move from Zintan into Tripoli, nor did the threatened arrests take place.

Each subsequent attempt has emboldened others to try their hand, or to strike out against rivals lest they make a bid for power. Now with conflicting reports out that Qaaqaa Brigade leader Othman Mlaiqitah was wounded in what was possibly an assassination attempt (or a car crash), those who would seek to take hold of the reins of power had best be prepared to weather their own armed opposition.

There is a liberal-leaning coalition known as the “National Forces Alliance”.It is supported by heavily armed militias from the western mountain town of Zintan. They are against the Salafi groups that include the ‘Muslim’ Brotherhood and other Salafi Militia (as the “Ansar al-Sharia”)..

Zintan have become increasingly independent of Tripoli’s “new” regime.

The ZINTANI

Originally published on Thu 07 November 2013 5:51 pm

Zintan, a mountain town in northwestern Libya, is a place of gray and brown buildings, with little infrastructure, about 50,000 people and no central government control from Tripoli.

The Libyan “government” doesn’t provide basic services to Zintan, not even water. People use GMMR wells to provide for themselves. The local council runs all of Zintan’s affairs out of a building in the center of town.

At the local militia base on the outskirts of town, we meet the keeper of Saif el-Islam Gadhafi, the son of Mu’ammar al-Qathafi.

The younger Gadhafi is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity (LIES! HAH!!). The central government wants him to stand trial in the capital, Tripoli. But the commander of Zintan’s militia, Ajmi al-Atiri, won’t give him up.

We caught Saif and we are responsible for him, Atiri says. The government in Tripoli isn’t worthy of taking him off our hands, he adds.

Loyal To Themselves

Atiri, a small man in his 50s, was a teacher when Muammar al-Qathafi demanded volunteers from Zintan to fight rebels in the east. Atiri and the rest of the town refused to fight their dellow brothers, no matter who they were.

Now, Atiri is Zintan’s military “boss”.

There are men like Atiri across the country who believe they know what’s best for Libya. They are former teachers, engineers and political exiles, who are unwilling to relinquish power to the state. They say “power” belongs to the PEOPLE, and no “state”.

Just this week, Zintani BRIGADES engaged in an hours long shoot-out against SALAFI extremists who govern their country, in Tripoli, captured by cellphone cameras.

Without security, the organs of the state barely function. Atiri says that the so-called “government leaders” spend their time fighting over power and money, and they are trying to use the militias to get what they want. He scoffs at these ‘Muslim’ Brotherhood shield Militias, calling them criminals. He says his own Brigade is different — it’s looking out for Libya. He says this is not the Libya he fights for.

Ordinary Libyans are getting sick of the Allaotunai Conference of the GNCso-called “government”, and their anger is not just directed at the ‘Muslim’ Brotherhood militias.

Outside the “parliamentry Meeting Hall” (at a Tripoli Hotel), a protester screams into a bullhorn.

“The members of (the RAT) parliament are monsters”, she says, “they’re ruining our country”.

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ZLITEN:

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Today 24 people were transferred from a prison Magor Zliten to the prosecution was the release of 13 people

was the extension of the rest, and tomorrow will be transferred to another group Adaulhm RBI FAFSA & their families.

There are reports confirming the transfer of 300 prisoners from the prisons of Misurata Zelitni to

prison Mager Bzletnwill be brought before a prosecutor gradually.

Urgent ~ was transferred a total of prisoners from jail and prison Magor.Khalil to the prosecution now ~

prisoners who had been transferred most of their complaints and their Kaadah period are offered to

the prosecution and judges ~ extension of them are very long periods of up to 45 days ~

Adaulhm RBI FAFSA families.

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dirty MISURATA:

In the process carried out by the quality of the Rebel Ziad macrophage targeting barge arrest on board and then succeeded Bouchtalh
Rebel Boca infiltrating the pool to the bottom of the ship and unload its engine oil with the help of troops from the battalion HiSam bin Humaid
And is currently being towed to the port of Misurata.

CYRENAICA:

SIRTE:

Resume work in the way of the “Sirte – Bin Jawad THRUWAY”

Libya media – Sirte: The director of road projects and agricultural sub in Sirte of the device on the implementation of

transportation projects Alsaddaaa, the resumption of the work of maintaining the road link between Sirte – Bin Jawad.

The Alsaddaaa, Monday, that the road with a length of approximately 200 kilometers east of the city of Sirte,

explaining that since the business began about …

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Lack of potential leads to a decline in the number of displaced families in SirteLibya media – Sirte said Prime Branch of the Ministry of Social Affairs in Sirte toxicity Omtir: “The number of displaced people in the city of Sirte were 650 displaced families, after that, the number of displaced families in the city of Sirte in 1076 the family.” She added that the displaced families Omtir Say numbers due to lack of availability of services and the settlement of their status, and the lack of potential branch of Social Affairs …

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AJDABIYA:

kidnapped nephew Khalifa Hftar in Ajdabiya, Libya.

Gunmen kidnap grandson sister Khalifa Hftar at the gas station the city of Ajdabiya in eastern Libya.

Kidnapping Mahmoud Ahabayl, nephew Major General Khalifa Hftar within the city of Ajdabiya ..

The grabber is the son of deceased Mustafa Ahabayl.

Kidnapped by unidentified city of Ajdabiya, eastern Libya, the grandson of the sister of Major Libyan retired, Khalifa Hftar, who is leading the military operation in eastern Libya says it is against the extremists in his country, said a source close to the family Haftar,

“The unidentified abducted Tuesday evening in Ajdabiya Mahmoud Mustafa Ahabayl cabled “22 years”, the grandson of the sister of Major General Hftar. ” The source added that “Mahmoud was riding in a private car black color on the road between the city of Ajdabiya and Tobruk, objected gunmen way and opened fire on his car, forcing him to stop, and taken away by the gunmen to an unknown place.”

The source pointed out that “the kidnappers demanded that the amount of financial capability million Libyan dinars, a ransom for the release of Mahmoud,” likely to be “practical criminal and has no relationship with the military operation launched by the Brigade against the militants.” and launched Hftar, in the 16th of last month, a military operation on behalf of “Operation Dignity” against insurgents say they are “terrorists linked Chiefs of Staff, headed the Libyan Government”, in the city of Benghazi, responded with the announcement that the government parties to this process, “a coup against the ‘legitimacy’ of the state.” (HAH!!)

4 found the bodies back to the “Ansar al-Sharia”
in two days in the city of Benghaziwere:1 – Ziad Shamsa2 – just Faitouri3 – bin Isa Boodlal4 – Abdulhadi Frckash

Targeting the airport, “HAVE- built”:
a clash between the forces Hftar, and “ANSAR al-SHARIA” Grad missilesin Benghazi this morning.

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a fire truck up the port of Benghazi coming from France
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14 fire trucks from #France at Benghazi port. Will b distributed to divisions of Ntl Safety Authority for East #Libyapic.twitter.com/UD7qDiFG3S
executing company is a company (SNC-Lavalin of Canada), a global company of the largest companies in the world and designs for the project is overseen by the Consultative Office

followers will impose a blockade on the city of Derna in the coming days.

Thousands of fighters from the Libyan army, led by “Major General Suleiman Mahmoud al-Obeidi,” preparing for the liberation of the city ”
Tuber “from organizations and armed militias. Makdth this Aljbash sources from the Libyan National Agency for added
Sources: Preparations have been completed after the graduation of large numbers of the organizers of the Libyan National Army to start
Process led by Major General “Suleiman Mahmoud al-Obeidi,” one of the leaders of the Cyrenaican National Army for the Liberation of the city of Derna
That suffer from “3” years of control of the armed militias of extremist amid complete absence of state
And institutions, and it came with this militia prevented the establishment of the Electoral Commission. “60” as the assassinations
Army personnel have recorded the highest proportion after the city of Benghazi, where the death toll.

officer suspected in the passports of passengers Egyptians, and Bardhma the criminal lab found fraud …

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“Children of Sheikh Abdul Salam Al Asmar”,on FB, presents some
Pictures from the junction of the Libyans displaced in Egypt.

“Children of Sheikh Abdul Salam Al Asmar”, on FB, posts:

# هااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااام

# Tameyeeyeaiemmmmmmmmmm

# Ndaaaaaaae to all the displaced in Egypt.

General Invitation # # for all Libyans displaced Bgmehoah Egypt.

# Invited to attend a special meeting exclusively displaced from their homes

That next Sunday \ corresponding to 22 \ 6 \ 2014 Address: Commerce Syndicate Cairo,
Ramsis Street, near the ambulance, near the metro station, Ahmed Orabi
At four o’clock pm
And in the presence of: –
A representative of the African Union
The Egyptian political parties Raasa
And representatives of human rights organizations, associations world
It is learned that the meeting will be transmitted to several international news channels and Arab and foreign
And as long as the Conqueror never Revolutionary Struggle constant ………

I hope Publishing and circular in all the pages of the Green Resistance.

And I’ll be in attendance for this Alajtmaaaaaa and I am happy meeting you.

USA:

HAS THE USA FORGOTTEN ALL THE ATTACKS; DESTRUCTION, MAIMINGS AND MURDER

USA IMPOSED ON LIBYANS DURING 2011 ???

Zintan brigade QaaQa” on FB, truthfully writes:

Libyan Abukhtalh for CNN .. the killing of the American ambassador in Benghazi was due to suffocation,

trying to burn down important documents.

CNN said Ahmed Abukhtalh, accused of involvement process of the attack on the villa of the U.S. spy-comlex, so-called “consulate”, in Benghazi, which led to the death of the U.S. spy-“ambassador”, Christopher Stevens along with three other Americans, said the cause of death of Stevens was the result of suffocation while trying to burn important documents inside the consulate, on the as he put it.

He did not deny Abu al-Khtalh in an exclusive interview with CNN in May / May 2013and his location consulate in the night in which it occurred the incident, pointing out that he was not aware that the American Spy Villa-Consulate in Benghazi, said:

“I did not know the place, and when I heard the news came.”

When asked if there was one in America has to communicate with him, where he said:

“I do not .. never .. until the investigation team who came to Benghazi did not even try to contact me,”

pointing to

“I was ready to sit down with them .. but not for investigation but Held unusual for dialogue. “

He pointed out that America, is using Abukhtalh of al-Qaeda,as a front to intimidate, and added:

“Al-Qaeda is not a defect ..

Al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda members belong to the CIA, and they are there placed by America, and requested

their violence by the U.S. It is the United States who really is the terrorist.”

U.S. Department of Defense announced the arrest of Ahmed Bouchtalh

Libya media –

Agencies said Pentagon press secretary, Admiral John Kirby in a press release publishing on Tuesday evening on the site and the U.S. Department of Defense: The U.S. militaryarrested the desired main incident of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in September 2012 and added Kirby that the United Statesis holding …

Pentagon confirms that Abuchtalh who was arrested in with Marines on the Libyan territories,

now resides on board piece U.S. Navy off the coast of Libya.

Libyan government demands U.S. RETURN Benghazi ‘mastermind’

and calls Delta Force raid that captured him a ‘an attack on our

sovereignty’

Ahmed Abu Khattala, 42, was captured Sunday outside Benghazi, Libya

Terror leader taken in joint raid by Delta force FBI without a single shot

Raid was based on 2011 assault against Osama bin Laden in Pakistan

The were no civilian or military casualties in the extraction of Khattala

U.S. justified raid as self-defense, as Khattala ‘was planning more attacks’

Khattala was reportedly read his Miranda rights shortly after his capture

Was also read safety exemption allowing authorities to quiz him on terrorism

Khattala charged in August 2013 with leading attacks that killed 4 Americans

Had been living in Libya and flouted U.S. authorities – even giving interviews

Khattala is now en route to the United States to stand trial in federal court

President Obama said the U.S. ‘has once again demonstrated that we will do whatever it takes to see that justice is done when people harm Americans’

PUBLISHED: 17:08 GMT, 18 June 2014 | UPDATED: 18:00 GMT, 18 June 2014

Libyan government officials have condemned the U.S. Delta Force raid that captured an alleged Benghazi mastermind and demanded that he be returned to Libya.

Libyan Justice Minister Saleh al-Marghani said American forces has no right to abscond with Ahmed abu Khattala and another official added that the operation was an ‘attack on Libyan sovereignty.’

Khattala, who was indicted by a U.S. federal court last August for the 2013 attack that killed four Americans, should face trial in Libya for the crimes, al-Marghani said – in the first official response from the government in Tripoli.

‘We had no prior notification. We did not to expect the U.S. to upset our political scene,’ he told a press conference on Wednesday.

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ringleader in the 2012 Benghazi consulate attack on Sunday after he taunted American officials for months

Condemnation: Libya’s Justice Minister Salah al-Marghani on Wednesday demanded Khattala be returned to Libya to face trial there

He said Khatalah had been wanted by Libyan authorities for questioning but a lack of security had prevented this. For nearly two years, Khattala taunted American and Libyan authorities – refusing to hide and maintaining a high public profile.

Even after he was indicted my American authorities, he gave several interviews to Americans news media from a cafe in Benghazi.

Said al Saoud, spokesman for the foreign ministry, said of the American raid: ‘This attack on Libya sovereignty happened at a time when Benghazi is suffering from many problems.’

The capture of Khattala, by an elite Delta Force team was modeled on the Osama bin Laden raid, took almost one year of planning and was completed without one shot being fired.

According to those with knowledge of the mission conducted under cover of dark on Sunday to apprehend the Libyan warlord and bring him to America to potentially face the death penalty – planning began in earnest in August.

Two dozen Delta Force commandos and two or three FBI Hostage Rescue Team agents arrived just after midnight at the Benghazi home of Khattala and using subterfuge grabbed him and bundled him into a vehicle and drove off into the night according to officials.

Observed by two drones flying overhead, the Delta Force team reportedly tricked their way into Khattala’s headquarters on Sunday and he is currently being held aboard the USS New York – which was built using steel from the World Trade Center destroyed in September, 2001

Covert raid:

Members of the clandestine Delta Force undertook the raid that captured Ahmed Abu al-Khattala on Sunday.

According to The Daily Beast, the elite Delta Force team has been practicing the dramatic extraction of Khattala using a mock-up of his Benghazi home at Fort Bragg, in North Carolina.

This is almost identical to the preparation for the May, 2011, raid that killed Osama bin Laden, that used a like-for-like recreation of the al-Qaeda chief’s Abbottabad, Pakistan home for planning.

Despite knowing exactly where Khattala was, senior US officials told The Daily Beast that they had to exercise patience in their execution of the mission while the Justice Department gathered evidence needed for his prosecution, which will likely happen in Washington D.C.

It also emerged this week that the U.S. justified the capture to the UN with intelligence that Khatallah was planning further attempts on American lives.

Subterfuge: President Barack Obama said the capture on Sunday of Ahmed Abu Khattala sends a clear message to the world that ‘when Americans are attacked, no matter how long it takes, we will find those responsible and we will bring them to justice.’

A letter from the United States ambassador to the UN, delivered to the Security Council, said an investigation: ‘The investigation also determined that he continued to plan further armed attacks against U.S. persons.

‘The measures we have taken to capture Abu Khatallah in Libya were therefore necessary to prevent such armed attacks, and were taken in accordance with the United States’ inherent right of self-defense’.

At least one of the three criminal federal charges faced by Khattala – the first man arrested in connection with the 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi – could carry the death penalty.

Khatallah is suspected of being the ringleader of the 2012 attack on the US rented diplomatic villa-compound in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans including the US spy-“ambassador” and ignited a political firestorm in Washington.

A criminal complaint filed and released by the U.S. district court for Washington, D.C., accused Khattala of killing a person in the course of an attack on a federal facility, providing material support to terrorists and using a firearm in commission of a crime of violence.

Indeed, in recent months Khattala had gone into hiding. But last week, new intelligence indicated that he ‘was going to be in a specific place that was advantageous’.

Captive: Ahmed Abu Khattala is reportedly being held on the USS New York (pictured here above) –

which contains steel salvaged from the wreckage of the World Trade Center destroyed on 11 September 2001.

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Political victory: US President Barack Obama speaks following a tour of TechShop Pittsburgh on June 17, 2014 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. during his speech President Obama commented on the capture of a key suspect linked to the deadly 2012 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, conducted by US troops in a secret operation in Libya over the weekend

According to The New York Times, President Obama acted on this and gave the order on Friday to pull him from the streets.

‘He was isolated,’ a U.S. official told The Washington Post about the raid. ‘It was pretty clean.’

DELTA FORCE: THE US ARMY’S MOST COVERT AND ELITE FIGHTING UNIT BASED ON BRITAIN’S FAMED SAS

Delta Force was conceived in the early 1960s after the US Army became concerned that it did not have an elite fighting force comparable to the UK’s Special Air Service .

Recruitment is primarily from US Special Forces, otherwise known as Green Berets and the highly secretive branch is reputed to have only 1,000 members.

The Pentagon will not acknowledge the involvement of any Delta Force soldiers in any engagements, but it is known that the unit shares Fort Bragg, North Carolina with the Green Berets.

Delta Force members are not officially classed as soldiers and usually shun the regimented day-to-day life of the US Army.

They do not usually wear army uniforms, but when needed, do not bear surnames or rank.

Delta Force soldiers are encouraged to grow and wear their hair like a civilian to avoid easy recognition as a member of the military.

Created in 1977, the first operational activity for Delta Force was the failed rescue bid of 53 American diplomatic staff from the US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, in April, 1980.

Training and operational structure are very similar to Britain’s SAS.

Recruits are expert at marksmanship, close quarter fighting and explosives.

President Barack Obama said the capture on Sunday of Ahmed abu Khattala sends a clear message to the world that ‘when Americans are attacked, no matter how long it takes, we will find those responsible and we will bring them to justice.’

‘We will find you,’ Obama declared.

The mission to apprehend Khattala bears similarities to the extraction carried out in broad-daylight in October that seized terror suspect, Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai.

He was was taken by Delta Force soldiers in an early morning raid planned in co-operation with the CIA, FBI and the Libyan government.

The entire smash-and-grab operation – in which no shots were fired – was described at the time as akin to ‘brain surgery-level of precision.’

However, one former Libyan intelligence official expressed surprise to CNN that abu Khattala was taken without a fight and noted that the alleged mastermind of the attack was well-guarded.

The Pentagon declined to discuss further details of the raid.

‘I’m not going to get into specifics on the actual execution of the operation,’ spokesman Adm. John Kirby said on Tuesday to CNN.

The White House would not comment on why he was captured now – nearly a year after he was indicted.

Indeed, last year, Khattala even gave an interview to The New York Times on a hotel patio, drinking a strawberry frappé.

However, the Daily Beast cites a source who suggests that Obama lacked the legal authority to send troops into Libya unilaterally because Khattala didn’t have links to al-Qaeda.

Only recently have investigators found links between him and the terrorists who attacked the United States in 2001.

It was the change in Khattala’s daily routine that gave US officials the confidence to act now according to The New York Times.

‘We had finally worked out a scenario where we felt it was right operationally to be able to pull it off,’ another official said. ‘The circumstances were right; the environment was right.’

Administration officials spent all Tuesday brushing off criticism that the president had been sitting on options to bring Khattala into custody and failed to use them.

‘Frankly, it’s not a surprise that an individual like this would show up for an interview,’ said Jen Psaki, the State Department spokeswoman.

‘We don’t think they would show up for a scheduled meeting with the Special Forces.’

Rear Admiral John F. Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman said that it was nonsense to suggest that the fugitive could have been caught before Monday.

DRY RUN FOR THE CAPTURE OF KHATTALA? THE DRAMATIC DELTA FORCE RAID THAT GRABBED TERROR SUSPECT IN ONLY 60 SECONDS

Dramatic surveillance footage shows the moment when US Delta Force special forces surgically extracted al-Qaeda terrorist Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai (also known as Anas al-Libi) from outside his home in Libya on October 5.

The early morning raid, which was described as akin to ‘brain surgery-level of precision’, took the eight-man team exactly 60-seconds to ambush the terror suspect inside his car in Tripoli and then bundle him into their own white van.

Al-Libi, 49, who is suspected of masterminding the 1998 bombings of the US Embassy’s in Kenya and Tanzania was rushed away from his home to the USS San Antonio in the Mediterranean to be questioned by the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group before being taken to New York City.

The rare glimpse of covert operations, which was obtained by The Washington Post, unfolds just like a scene from a Tom Clancy novel and begins with al-Libi’s dark car coming around the corner to park outside his Tripoli home.

From behind his car a white van rushes to pull up alongside and men rush out brandishing weapons pointing them at al-Libi’s car.

There then appears to be a brief scuffle which ends with al-Libi being yanked from his vehicle and bundled into the van.

No shots appear to be fired and once the terror suspect is inside the white van, the doors close on both his dark car and the Delta Force vehicle – at which point both drive off – presumably with a Delta Force soldier at the wheel of al-Libi’s car.

Watch Video of the October Extraction Here:

Video shows U.S. Delta Force snatching al Qaeda suspect:

‘The presumption in the question is that, you know, he was going to McDonald’s for milkshakes every Friday night, and we could have just picked him up in a taxicab,’ he said. ‘I mean, these people deliberately tried to evade capture.’

The raid was carried out without the knowledge of the Libyan government, a decision described by the Pentagon and the State Department as ‘unilateral US action.’

Just like the Osama bin Laden raid, it was deemed judicious not to tell Libyan authorities lest the mission be leaked to Khattala.

Appearing on CNN on Tuesday night, former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton said that she was relieved that he had been captured.

‘It took, as you know, 10 years to bring Osama bin Laden to justice,’ she said on CNN where she was promoting her new book.

‘It’s taken more than two years to bring this perpetrator to justice.’

‘Khattala has been very much on the minds of our law enforcement, our military and our intelligence professionals since that night in September of 2012.’

WASHINGTON REACTS TO THE CAPTURE OF BENGHAZI ATTACK ‘LEADER’

President Barack Obama: ‘With this operation, the United States has once again demonstrated that we will do whatever it takes to see that justice is done when people harm Americans. We will continue our efforts to bring to justice those who were responsible for the Benghazi attacks.’

Secretary of State John Kerry: ‘This weekend, that work took a dramatic step forward. Ahmed Abu Khatallah, an alleged key leader of the attacks in Benghazi, is now in U.S. custody. He will face a court of law and be held accountable for his actions. This bold action by the superb United States military is a clear reminder to anyone who dares do us harm that they will not escape with impunity.’

Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas: ‘Khatallah has been openly defying the United States for more than twenty months. Now that he is in custody, the proper authorities should be given ample time to assess what intelligence he may have about ongoing terrorist operations against Americans. Khatallah is a foreign terrorist, captured by our special forces overseas for his violent attack on a U.S. facility. He belongs in Guantanamo and in the military justice system, not in the U.S. civilian court system with the constitutional protections afforded U.S. citizens.’

Congressman Ed Royce, Republican of California and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman: ‘This is overdue, considering that this individual has made himself available to multiple media outlets in the 19 months since the deaths of four Americans, including the first U.S. Ambassador killed in an attack since 1979. I hope that this capture brings us closer to justice and accountability. We should right now be getting from him as much intelligence as possible.’

Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman: ‘I fully support the administration’s efforts to gather intelligence from Abu Khatallah and prosecute him in federal court. Past cases against terrorists like Abu Khatallah have shown that we can obtain intelligence, convict terrorists and lock them away for a very long time. The U.S. criminal justice system has successfully convicted over 500 terrorists since 9/11, and I have full confidence in the ability of our federal courts.’

US officials said Abu Khattala was being held on the Navy amphibious transport dock ship USS New York, which was in the Mediterranean Sea.

The officials spoke only on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss Abu Khattala’s whereabouts.

Khattala is now being questioned about the 2012 Benghazi attacks and any possible links he could have to terrorism.

Officials told CNN that he will be transported aboard the USS New York to give investigators ‘maximum time to question him.’

National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said that Khattala would be debriefed and could possibly be held at sea for months.

Khattala was expected to be questioned by an elite inter-agency interrogation team created in 2009 to seek information from suspects to prevent future terrorist attacks, a U.S. official said.

The official could not say whether members of the U.S. High Value Detainee Interrogation Group, which is housed at the FBI’s National Security Branch, were already in place to question Khatallah aboard the ship.

According to the LA Times, Khattala was read his Miranda rights shortly after his capture.

However, they read out a safety exemption that allows them to question him on terrorism.

Obama says captured Benghazi suspect being transported to US

As recently as last August, though, abu Khattala told The Associated Press that he was not in hiding nor had he been questioned by Libyan authorities about the attack at the diplomatic compound.
He denied involvement and said that he had abandoned the militia.

Administration officials said on Tuesday that despite his media interviews, he ‘evaded capture’ until the weekend when military special forces, including members of the Army’s elite Delta Force, nabbed him.
Whatever the path to his capture, he was headed for the United States to face what Obama called ‘the full weight of the American justice system.’ Obama called the Libyan an ‘alleged key leader’ of the attack.
The Libyan was the commander of a militant group called the Abu Obaida bin Jarrah Brigade and is accused of being a senior leader of the Benghazi branch of Ansar al-Shariah in Libya, which the U.S. has designated a terror group.
On Capitol Hill, Republicans urged the administration to get as much intelligence out of abu Khattala as possible before anyone reads him his rights to remain silent, supplies him with a lawyer and prepares him for trial in a U.S. courtroom.
In fact, Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, top Republican on the Intelligence Committee, said interrogation of the Libyan already was underway and ‘we hope to find out some positive things.’
Abu Khattala is charged with terror-related crimes in U.S. District Court in Washington and will be tried like a civilian, the administration said.

Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said the U.S. should skip the legal niceties and focus on interrogation.

‘The most valuable thing we can get from this terrorist is information about who else was involved in this,’ McConnell told reporters. ‘We’ll be watching closely to see how much information they glean from him and how they’re handling it.’

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., added: ‘We should have some quality time with this guy – weeks and months. Don’t torture him; have some quality time with him.’

Justice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi declined to comment on whether Abu Khattala had been read his ‘Miranda rights’ or when that might happen.

‘As a general rule, the government will always seek to elicit all actionable intelligence and information we can from terrorist suspects in our custody,’ Raimondi said in an email.

According to a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday, abu Khattala is charged with killing a person in the course of an attack on a federal facility and conspiring to do so; providing, attempting and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists that resulted in death, and discharging, brandishing, using, carrying and possessing a firearm during a crime of violence.

Officials said he could face the death penalty if convicted of the first charge.

His arrest may well not be the last. ‘Even as we begin the process of putting Khattala on trial and seeking his conviction before a jury, our investigation will remain ongoing as we work to identify and arrest any co-conspirators,’ Attorney General Eric Holder said.

FBI Director James Comey, speaking in Minnesota, said abu Khattala’s arrest sends a message to others who need to be held accountable that ‘we will shrink the world to bring you to justice.’

Some Republicans said abu Khattala should be headed for Guantanamo so that he could be interrogated at length.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and US Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) talk to reporters U.S. Capitol on June 17, 2014 in Washington, DC. McConnell and fellow Republican leaders were critical of President Barack Obama’s handling of the capture.

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